Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Scientists used aircraft and satellites to track biodiversity, helping improve conservation and space research.

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

Two coastal scientists from the the Woods Hole Sea Grant offered a frank talk about the past, present and future of the town's fragile coastline.

The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...